The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-11-02
TALDIAGE ON ANINIoSITY.

, tc 'ciiH his hearers to Exercise UnlimIt-
cd Forsiveness-nIan, Whose Last Plea Is
Tor Mercy for HIMSELF Should Grant it to
His Neighbors.
, 'harness your forgiveness to the sum
set! 1t you don't forgive your enemies
you won't come near enough to the har-
Dor OF Heaven to see the lightship," said
Dr. Taimage, addressing some 5000
people in tho Brooklyn Tabernacle on
Sunday morning.
"Oh, let not the sun go down on your
| wrath, he continued, Don't wait till
} G'05 this evening, when the sun sets to
forgive, but do it at the meridian Very
many people arc troubled with insomnia.
Few can sleep peacefully from 10 at
night till the next morning. I'll give
you an unfailing recipe for Wakefulness.
Think over all the wrongs that have been
done you by people, then write q long
letter about it; take out of their pigeon
holes oil the mean things you know about
your enemies, then go to sleep if you
can; Ilo on your. back and you'll have
nightmare.
My friends, it is best to put bound
on your animosities. Will you let the
man who robbed you como and bend
over your pillow? Why not fence him
off with the golden bars of sunset? Why
let these thoughts disturb your slumbers?
The tnct Is there are thousands of men
and women who let their thoughts de-
stroy their physical haalth. Many man
carries beneath his vest a gnawing ami
mostly. There arc hundreds of thou
sands OF families where there is the
greatest need of n spirit of forgiveness.
BY the memory of your fathers and
mothers grave be reconciled."
Dir. Talmage related case Of faith
~ kl..,tI IN.,, 49,, n 4
tho use of woman's arm, that had been
useless for years, was restored to her in
presence Of a number of people. "Since
thcn, said he, 81 believe God can do
anything. If a man is ever SO crooked
with hate for fellow being God can
stralghten him out. Lay hold of AL
mighty God and he'll help you. History
tells OF man who hated his father SO
much that he burned his body after he
died, then took the ashes and put them
i'll sacks and tied half the sacks to eagles
that flew east, and half to others that
flew west,
''Anothor reason why we should for
gNe," said the preacher, ''is that we
may not live to see another day. Most
people die between at night and in
the morning. Something i'll the atmos-
phere seems to relax the body from the
soul at that time. They are apt to 20
out during the darkest hours of the
night, and Heaven, always bright, is
brighter then when they enter it. Oh,
III that dark night, when we leave this
world, our great plea will be mercy.
| What plight our souls Will be in if we
come unf orgiving!
81 know of nothing more thrilline
than the discovery at Pompeii Of that
soldier who had been on guard l 700
years, standing with hand on sword, he'll
mot on head, ut the post of duty, when
others IN the doomed city were flying
for their lives. We want to beon guard
for God, true here and true there. I
don't suppose I'm much more of cow
ard than other people, but / tell you
plainly L could not sleep tonight unless
could shake hands with any one on
earth.
"If u man won't ~ rcconciled you
give in to him. 'Oh, says some woman,
Il can't forgive her; she's done too much;
she's too hateful; it's no use; can't for
give her and won't My sister. you
can if you try a man says THAT fel-
low started those stories. III the newspa-
pcrs about me; he's too mean for any
thing; I'll get even with him. I'll make
him squirm. Better resign that feeling,
my friend. But, says some one in the
gallery, 'you don't know what I've got
to bear or you wouldn't talk that way
"Thcn you make me think of the little
girl who was helping her father on
moving day. The father put a large
package IN her arms, thcn piled on
article after article till stranger, who
WAS passing, said: Hold on! you arc
girl. The child, looking up askance at
tho stranger, said: Father knows how
much i can carry and our Father in
Heaven knows how much we can carry.
"Anothcr reason why we ought to
ally the suDimCst action with the
sublimcst scene in nature. It's delight
full to have some old place, old tree, old
room or old gate associated with some
action. Now, o man, associate the sun
set with unlimited forgiveness of all
enemies. If you fail at first, go right
on. Shakespeare wrote seven plays be-
fore he wrote Hamlet and twenty eight
before he wrote Macbeth The man
or woman le0st to blame is generally tho
one to take the first step toward recon
ciliatiOn. Oh, man, take that step, it
will make you measure three inches moro
around the chest your respiration will
be better, aye, it will make you moro
like God himself.
| liuiuCSS yONl lOiBiNcuCSS 10 Gue sun
set. You've heard about the sunset of
the Cordilleras, in the Apcnincs and
Italy; but there is finer one to be seen
when you throw all your animosities in
and let the horses of fire trample them
out, the chariots OF fire rcll over them,
the pillows OF fire 0 'erwhelm them. Gods
greatest achievement is this sunset; your
greatest, forgiveness. +''--
"Gou never saw two sunsets alike, and
| think that if God can afford to hang
over the wall of Heaven moro MASTER
pieces Of natural art than all the Italian
and Venetian galleries contain he can
take good care OF us. If God be for us
who can be against us? SO the sunset
of earth is the sunrise of Heaven"
scene at a Funeral.